" grammar "

 [ "grammar" ]

1: Something that people on the internet are incapable of learning.

  * e.g.,  ... 'omg liek you suk you n00b' 

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1:  a universally accepted form of writing or speaking that appropriately conveys a person's thoughts so that others may understand it.

  * e.g.,  ... 'They're dog ways alot.' - bad grammar 

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2:  a dying art.

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3:  not something that is readily experienced while surfing the Internet.

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4:  something that 99% of people in the world have no concept of.

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5:  a form of writing or speaking which is hard to learn and hence is ignored by the general populous.

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6:  a knowledge which is deeply rewarding, although not deemed important or crucial by small people.

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1: Something that has not been adequately defined by some other definitions; refers to the rules used to combine words together in order to form meaning within a given language.

  * e.g.,  ... Bad grammare n spelung aint not impotrent in a essay. 

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2: "i don liek u becoz u suck"==grammatically correct, despite spelling shortcuts and the lack of capitalization/punctuation. These are mechanical/technical errors.

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3: "She go to house red last Saturday."==despite perfect mechanics, this is not grammatically correct, due to a tense mismatch (needs to be past tense, verb misinflection (should be "she goes"), missing article ("the" or "a"), and adjective-noun word order reversal.

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1: One of the most important language tools available. It is largely ignored by those too moronic to use it properly.

  * e.g.,  ... GRAMMAR Wrong: There not feeling good cause Stacy and me didnt come. Right: They're not feeling good because Stacy and I didn't come. 

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1: Something people should be forced to learn, even if they are stupid. It is also something that makes people on-line think you are a stuck up bastard.

  * e.g.,  ... Me: Please, stop embarassing yourself. 

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1: Along with spelling, a construct unfortunately in short supply amongst web-based communiques.

  * e.g.,  ... A rapid survey of any definition group on this site will disclose a monstrous paucity of grammar. 

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1: (1) To a linguist, grammar is the structure of a language (as opposed to its lexicon, its words). Contrary to popular opinion, grammar is not something enforced by language academies, but it exists necessarily in all languages. (2) To a non-linguist, grammar usually refers to various pre-scientific notions of "correct" usage.

  * e.g.,  ... Chinese grammar is very different from English. 

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1: A dead language. Often mocked and misunderstood by morons who learned it in second grade and abandoned it.

  * e.g.,  ... Scholar: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." 

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1: Something that should be learnt properly before being allowed access to word definitions on Urban Dictionary. I'm sick of misused punctuation, missing capital letters and lazy spelling. If I had a red pen right now...

  * e.g.,  ... "Lyk do u giez no how 2 punktooate coz mie teecher says i suk @ it" 

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1: Something Tanner Barthelete doesn't have.

  * e.g.,  ... How do you spell realize? "Guys, I have good grammar.